Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bakery

/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.67 in modern English

Syllables
bak-ery
IPA
/ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.

Countable

noun

The trade of a baker.

Uncountable

noun

Baked goods.

American usage; Uncountable

noun

A large pair of buttocks.

Countable; Humorous; Slang; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term. Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

bakeries (plural)

Derived Forms

bakeryful bakerylike barkery microbakery

Phrases

bakery paper bakery release paper couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery erotic bakery

Frequently Paired Words

bake baker

Synonyms

bakehouse bakeshop baker's baking

Questions

How do you pronounce bakery?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbeɪ.kə.ɹi/.
What does bakery mean?
A place in which bread (and often other baked goods such as cakes) is baked and/or sold.
Where does bakery come from?
From bake + -ery (“place of”). Replaced earlier bakehouse. Originally "place for making bread"; as "shop where baked goods are sold", it was believed by British travelers by 1832 to be an American-invented term. Sense 4 is by analogy with cake (“buttocks”).

How to pronounce bakery

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